Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

contingent remainder

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.53 in modern English

Syllables: con-tin-gen-t re-main-der
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

19

Letters

6

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An interest in property that is owned by a party that can not be identified until the interest vests.

Example Sentences

"Joe leaves property "to Mike for life, and then to Mike's oldest surviving child"; since it is not known who will be Mike's oldest surviving child at the time of Mike's death, ownership of the property is a contingent remainder."

Inflected Forms

contingent remainders (plural)

Questions

What does contingent remainder mean?: An interest in property that is owned by a party that can not be identified until the interest vests.

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